November 10, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Japanese ecommerce solution giant Rakuten will be acquiring the Canadian ereading service Kobo from majority shareholder and founder of the service Indigo. Indigo is Canada’s largest book retailer and founded Kobo in 2009 to compete with Amazon’s and Barnes & Noble’s ereaders. The Kobo ereading platform has a [...]
Barnes & Noble Plays Villain In DC Universe
October 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Earlier this month Barnes & Noble began pulling 100 DC graphic novel titles from shelves in its brick-and-mortar stores. The decision came after DC Entertainment made an exclusive digital deal with ecommerce solution Amazon to supply graphic novels for the new Kindle Fire. DC fans can still [...]
Major Publishers Provide Ecommerce Solutions For Authors
October 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Three major publishers will soon provide authors with access to book sales data online through new author portals. Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday the creation of its author portal that will allow authors and illustrators to see data online about the sales of their published material. [...]
Ecommerce Leader Amazon Taking Publishing Into Their Own Hands
October 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce giant Amazon is set to publish 122 books of a variety of genres this fall. By creating their own publishing line, Amazon is removing traditional publishing houses from the process and making their own deals with authors. Amazon Publishing will act similar to a traditional publisher, [...]
2011 Holiday Shopping Cart Tablet Roundup
September 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team These days tablet devices are hot items for the holiday season, here is a roundup of some of the top contenders on the market for the remainder of 2011. Apple iPad 2 The iPad is currently dominating all other tablet competitors with a 73 percent market share. iPad [...]
Amazon Preparing E-Book Rentals for Your Shopping Cart?
September 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is preparing to launch an e-book rental service similar to Netflix’s rental model. Users would pay a monthly fee for access to selected publications from Amazon’s e-book collection, and access privileges would be determined by the subscribers monthly rate. Amazon [...]
DC Goes “Day-and-Date” on Digital Comics!
September 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The digital age has brought about many changes. Products that were usually only available in stores are available on ecommerce solutions. Items like books and CDs, which were previously only available in physical form, can now be wirelessly downloaded from remote servers and ecommerce software platforms. The [...]
Women Now Dominate E-Reader Ownership Rates
September 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Reading is one of those activities that bridges the gender gap. While their book interests may vary, men and women of all ages love to read. And the most recent explosion in the popularity of devices like Amazon’s Kindle and the Nook Color has made reading even [...]
Disruption in the Textbook World!
August 31, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team This school year more than any other, it’s all about textbook rentals. A variety of new options have sprung up in recent months, and they are poised to take advantage of the new school year and the huge numbers of students flocking back to schools who are [...]
Add a Kindle Daily Deal to Your Shopping Cart
August 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Do you have a Kindle? Read lots of books on your iPad with the Kindle App? Then you’re in luck! Today, Amazon announced the Kindle Daily Deal program, which will feature a different Kindle eBook everyday at a discounted price. Think of it as a Groupon for [...]
Could Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader Spark a New Change?
August 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In a move to take back the control of the revenue generated by its best-selling Kindle app, ecommerce giant Amazon has responded to Apple’s controversial subscription rules by simply not playing by them by launching its app to the cloud. Back in February, Apple unveiled its much-anticipated [...]
Barnes And Noble Offer $100 In Free E-Books With Nook
August 10, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s that time of year again! Ecommerce solutions everywhere are coming out with deals to help kids get the best value on their back to school gear. Barnes and Noble has stepped it up by including $100 in free e-books and study guides with both the Nook [...]
Panasonic Raboo Goes Into Japanese Shopping Carts
July 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The Japanese have a unique ereader/tablet to put in their shopping carts starting late last week. The Raboo (short for RAkuten BOOks, after the country’s biggest ecommerce company) started selling overseas and has a lot of people talking. The Panasonic product will roll out with immediate access [...]
Kindle: Changing Textbooks, Saving Newspapers
July 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The face of publishing, printing, writing, and distributing the written word is changing. It’s been changing for years. The introduction of the internet was a massive disruption of the usual publishing system. For decades (centuries?) the gates of the publishing world were tightly locked and closely monitored. [...]
More Pottermore Secrets Revealed – Teams Up With Google
July 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Harry Potter mania has reached fever pitch since the last installment of the movie’s franchise “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” debuted at a record breaking $168 million weekend, but no one in the wizarding or muggle world is complaining about this phenomenon (except maybe [...]
Scribd Launches Float – The Netflix Of Reading
July 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The online document sharing and reading platform, Scribd, has come out with something completely new. The new brand is called “Float.” This is Scribd’s first iPhone application, and is a one-stop place to read newspapers, PDF’s, magazines, etc. You won’t have to go to the iTunes ecommerce [...]
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